Grassroots Thinking columnist and organizer Kali Akuno explains why a general strike is necessary, but should only be seen as a means to the end of the corporate, two-party system.
Opinion
The Community Movement Builders Newark chapter and the Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Citywide Alliance issue a statement demanding answers and accountability for the death of Jean Wilson Brutus.
Official Statements
BAP Nashville releases an official statement denouncing the lack of transparency and community involvement and rejects Mayor O'Connell's task force's legitimacy.
Official Statements
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Author and poet Too Black briefly surveys the history and philosophies of nonviolent action to reveal why nonviolent struggle is not actually nonviolent.
Explainers
From the notes from the black underground collection: From launching Arm the Spirit, the first revolutionary prison newspaper, to co-founding the Jericho Movement, Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army veteran, Jalil Muntaqim details stories of resisting empire and organizing for a new world.
notes from the undergound
This week's headlines on MacKenzie Scott's donation to The Trevor Project adds yet another chapter to her story of philanthropic leadership. But have her donations to HBCUs and other colleges and organizations actually made a difference?
Essays
Community Movement Builders strongly condemns the United States' war of agression against the sovereign people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. "This war is not about drugs, democracy, or human rights. It is about oil, power, and control."
Official Statements
The holidays are a time when many people are forced to face their grief, individually and collectively. As we navigate the season, let us remember that grief should be embraced with tenderness and curiosity.
The nurse offered pills to lower his blood pressure. He chose to work out instead. In his first for Grassroots Thinking, Antoine Davis shares the physical and mental health benefits of exercise, and how he reversed high blood pressure without medication.
Prison Writers
Meeting the moment: mutual aid organizing to survive and thrive during the coming economic depression.
Opinion
Incarcerated writer Xandan Gulley writes about why he rejects gender-affirming care due to a change in drugs purchased by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and how this process has led to feelings of a slow death.
Prison Writers
A personal essay by teacher and writer, Steph Curry, on how capitalism shapes our family dynamics and influences our career decisions.
Essays